And as we drift into sleep, I feel something I’ve never felt before. A closeness that isn’t merely physical. A connection that… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Neither of us seemed able to be close to anyone. Not even each other. Closeness meant the one you loved the most… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
When a child has a bad dream and wakes up crying, Dad goes and says, 'Don't be afraid, don't be scared. I'm… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Barbarian --A Code of Conduct honored by all true barbarian warriors, requiring excellent coordination with weapons, closeness to nature, awkwardness with women,… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
Worship is accomplished with the life as well as with the words and attitudes of people. Changed and transformed lives testify to… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
You have someone in your life whom you honor and revere so much that every hurt on them is inflicted on you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken… — Alain LeRoy Locke Copy Share Image
A man's fatherliness is enriched as much by his acceptance of his feminine and childlike strivings as it is by his memories… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
She had said she didn’t feel fear, but it was a lie; this was her fear: being left alone. Because of one… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
First,” he said, coming behind me and placing his hands on the counter, just outside of mine, “choose your tomato.” He dipped… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
The aesthetic event is something as evident, as immediate, as indefinable as love, the taste of fruit, as water. We feel poetry… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Being concerned about other people is especially relevant in today's world. If we consider the complex inter-connected ness of our modern lives,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The history of a city was like the history of a family—there is closeness and even affection, but death eventually separates everyone… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“The sun was high overhead in the world above. My husband slept soundly beside me, his breathing soft and even. We had… — S. Jae-Jones Copy Share Image
“True closeness respects each other's space. You can never get any measuring instrument to compare and set on a pedestal how one… — Angelica Hopes Copy Share Image
“The extraordinary-looking pair of young people weren't holding hands, but the way they tilted ever so subtly toward each other made it… — Josephine Angelini Copy Share Image
That is God's call to us - simply to be people who are content to live close to him and to renew… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
In my travels, I have found two peoples, the Tibetans and the Fijians, who don't seem to have this problem. Their closeness… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“You don't have to have sex to find a feeling of closeness and understanding. Lord knows I feel that way about you.… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
As a test of the closeness of your relationship with the world, sex could never be a patch on being murdered. (That's… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
“By the external appearance of your knowledge, you have attained (high) ranks and reverence with the people! So seek with Allah higher… — Wuhayb ibn al-Wird Copy Share Image
Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“She hadn't expected to be sorry, and at first she wasn't. The act itself was neither disappointing nor magical; it was what… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Marx and Engels are arguably history's most famous couple. Such was the closeness of their collaboration that it is not always easy… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
“There was also closeness, for the end of a couple is like a death, and the notion of death, of temporariness, can… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“Darling, don’t chase closeness that costs your peace. Let go of friendships, family ties, or past chapters that weigh heavy on your… — Marjory Qwen Copy Share Image
Our closeness to the Lord will, in great measure, determine the peace and comfort and renewed strength that we feel as we… — Robert E. Wells Copy Share Image
“It's like when you take a trip with someone you don't know very well. Sometimes, you can get very close very quickly,… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“Schopenhauer has a metaphor for human closeness. He writes about cold porcupines who have to snuggle up to keep warm, but if… — Brenda Walker Copy Share Image
Whatever power there is in the urban pictures is bound to the closeness with which they skirt banality. For a shot to… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
I had never been with a woman for longer than a night, and they had always been whores. And while throughout each… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
If you unite a couple on a joint fight, the question is, "Does it unite them literally, or does it weaken their… — Amma Asante Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ does not teach us a spirituality “of closed eyes”, but one of “alertness”, one which entails an absolute duty to… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
It's tough for parents to talk to children about heavy-weight topics such as peer pressure, drugs and morality if they don't already… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
the New Englander landed on a stony, barren tract, and a large share of his strength during two centuries has gone to… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
“There is a need for closeness, yet we can't get too close. The teacher-pupil relationship is a kind of tightrope to be… — Bel Kaufman Copy Share Image
When you make a breakthrough it is a moment of scientific exhilaration because you have been on this search and seem to… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
“Dad?' 'Yeah?' 'Could you tell me a story?' 'Sure.' 'A good one.' 'As opposed to all the boring ones I tell.' 'Right.'… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The closeness of the India-Afghanistan relationship is not a new phenomenon. It has existed since time immemorial. And as a close friend,… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
